Recently, the question came up about how to archive Instagram posts. https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2862992/15133902 Currently, Instagram is set up so it can't be archived by archive.is, web.archive.org, or any of the search engine cache sites. However, there is a workaround. Many websites mirror Instagram in real-time or at a slight delay. You can then archive an Instagram post from one of those sites. Since the pizzagate thread above mentioned nununu clothing, I thought I would check how some of these sites differed by using the most recent nununu post: https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXg4nnn8Zm/.

For each site I compared the URL ending from the original Instagram post to the mirror site. The sites where the URL has the same ending are helpful for quickly archiving older posts. Most mirrors require finding the username or hashtag and scrolling through until you find the correct post. I also tried to see which mirrors supported the multi-picture posts, like this one: https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXg4nnn8Zm/. That URL is not listed in the chart, but my findings on whether or not the mirror supports it are.

The number of comments that appeared alongside each post was consistent for most sites. However, some sites showed different numbers of comments for each post. The posts with a greater number of comments showed more, but still not all the comments appeared.

Based on the chart, here are my picks. Overall, inkphy.com is the best. It is the only site that archives multi-photo posts and has matching URL suffixes. It only comes 1 short of the highest number of comments shown. If you need to archive who liked a post then go with Picsoro.com.

Feel free to post in the comments any other mirror sites you find.